Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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The book Night is written by a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel. He shows us what it was like to live through such horror. Sometimes I think that he made stuff up, but unfortunately it was all true. There were many themes in the book like family, silence, and self-preservation, but there are three main themes all throughout the book - inhumanity, denial, and religion/faith. A main theme all throughout the book was inhumanity. “The Kapos were beating us again, I no longer felt the pain.” found on page 36. It says that the Kapos were beating them again, so they have done it before, and his body has adapted to the pain that he doesn’t feel the pain. On page 62, he writes, “I heard the pounding of my heart. The thousands